Irvin Schuller is the pen name of Erwin Schüller, was born near Stuttgart in 1952 where he spent his childhood and youth. He studied English and Spanish in Freiburg and Barcelona. After training as a student teacher, he initially worked in adult education and was a freelance lecturer for German as a foreign language, computer programming and PC application programmes. In the last fifteen years of his professional career, he taught English and Spanish in grammar schools in southern Germany. Today he lives in a quiet village in Bavaria.